Trunk



(No Model.)

P. H. SMITH.

TRUNK.

Patented` June 28, 1898.

WITNESSES l INVENTOR ATTO R N EY ArnN'r Brien.

PAUL n. SMITH, or cOLUMBUs, orno.`

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,431, dated June 28,1898. Application filed February 10,1898. Serial No. 669,737. (No'model.)

Improvements in Trunks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description ofthe invention, such as will.

enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is to provide improved devices for supporting and elevating the tray of a trunk, and its special purpose is to enable the tray to be removed without removing its support.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating an embodiment of my invention, Figure l is a vertical section taken longitudinally through the end of a trunk containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a traysupporting tube, the lower portion being broken out to show details of construction. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the tray-supporting bracket; and Fig. 4'is a sectional view of the tubes, taken on line a: m of Fig. 1 and looking up. l

The outer tube l for containing the traysupporting tube and bracket, with a slot connecting with a chamber for containing and supporting pulleys l, may be substantially the same and fitted to the end wall of the trunk, as shown in my application for patent iiled December 16, 1897, Serial No. 662,194.

The inner tube 2, which fits neatly in the .tubular portion l, but so as to slide vertically therein, has its lower end cut with a T-slit to allow the bending outward of ton gu es 2, that project toward the pulley-chamber of the outer tube l. These tongues serve to prevent the rotation of the tube 2 in the outer tube 1, but d0 not prevent said tube 2 from being metallic bracket, as shown in Fig. 3, consist- Ving of a bar 4, that has at its Outer end two upright arms 4a and 4b, that it and are secured in tenons cut in opposite sides of the end board ofthe tray 5, and the inner end of said bracket-bar 4 has la depressed portion 4c to form a recess to receive a wooden bar 5, that extends transversely across the bottom oi' the tray. The metallic bracket-bar 4, with its upright arms 4jand 4b, together `with the wooden bar 5, make a good brace for the tray 5. The under` side of the bracket-bar 4 is provided with a socket 4d to Iit upon the upper end of the tube 2, that projects beyond the upper end of the tube l, and to enable the easy finding of the upper end of said tube 2 when the tray is to be placed thereon the said socket is flared at its lower end. The under side of this bracket-bar is also made with a strengthening web or strip 4e, extending between the socket 4d and depressed portion 4, as well as along the under side of the bracket at the opposite side ofthe socket.

In practice a cord, preferably of wire, is attached to a block 3 and passed out through the opening between the tongues in the lower end of the tube 2, then upward in the pulleychamber, over the upper pulley, and downward over the lower pulley insaid chamber, thence inward through the openings between the aforesaid tongues and the small openings in theinner sides of the lower ends of the tubes l and 2, and across the bottom of the trunk to a device by means of which the cord may be drawn. When the cord is drawn, the tube 2 and bracket are raised, and with them the tray, which may be swung Outward von tube 2, displaying the interior of the trunk.

If at any time it is desired to remove the tray from the trunk, it may be simply lifted off the end of the tube 2 without disturbing or removing any of the other parts, and inV replacing the tray the iiared socket on the Vbottom of the bracket-bar 4 causes the tray IOO tation, and just above said tongues or guides or a strip and a socket flared at its lower end, Io on the inside of said tube a cylindrical block substantially as described.

With a hole through its center held in position In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my by means of pins, substantially as described. hand in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

5 2. A removable tray-supportingJF bracket i having a horizontal bar, this bar `having at PAUL H' SMITH' one end two upright arms, at its other a de- Vitnesses: pressed portion which provides a rest for a GEORGE M. FINCKEL,

cross-arm and having on its under side a web t GEORGE XV. ALFRED. 

